HKU Student Concert
HKU Students Present: WaveFieldSynthesis Concert Friday 21 April 2023 / 16:00 Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan 50 Utrecht
HKU Music Technology students present: WaveFieldSynthesis Concert
ARDERMAR, Iver Kim and others…
Friday 21-04-2023 16:00 - 17:20 HKU IBB-Laan Room 1.34 Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan 50
Free entrance Limited seats available
About WFS:
Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) is a sound production technology designed specifically for spatial audio rendering. Virtual acoustic environments are simulated and synthesised using large numbers of loudspeakers. The WFS system from The Game of Life consists of 192 speakers, which are arranged in a square formation of 10 by 10 meters.
About the works:
“A Terra a quem a trabalha!”
ARDEMAR, born in Portugal in 1999, is a musician and creative coder studying Music and Technology at HKU. Based on a song of a Portuguese traditional genre of collective singing “cante alentejano”, titled “Reforma Agrária” the artist tries to expand the original songs meaning and sentiment, as the original song was created as a lament, as the cries of “The land to those who work in it!” and “Agricultural reform now!” were never met, as reactionaries were able to pressure corrupt politicians to crush the action taken by poor Portuguese farmers with armed police shortly after the fascist dictatorship that oppressed Portuguese workers came to an end in 1974.
<0204>Iver Kim, born in Korea in 1998 is a multidisciplinary artist studying Music and Technology at HKU. Kim’s emotional composition, <0204> is an homage to her grandmother, who unfortunately passed away in her home country shortly after the artist arrived here in the Netherlands. Kim mourned her in sound, utilizing recordings from the funeral event, exploring textures and silence to create a gutting sorrow. the piece is a trajectory, an attempt to find closure, a try for immense emotion to resolve into peace. Her other piece, samples “Polovtsian Dances” from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor. This piece has been re-arranged for the WFS system. Location